How can you tell what needs emergency care and what can wait till tomorrow? Get care at once if your cat:
- Difficulty breathing
- Open-mouth breathing (cats always prefer to breath via their nose — if they show signs of open-mouth breathing, they are having severe difficulty or are extremely stressed!)
- Panting
- A respiratory rate over fifty breaths per minute (hint: count the number of breaths in fifteen seconds and multiply by four to get the total breaths per minute)
- Excessive drooling
- Hiding (under the bed, in the closet)
- Not moving
- Straining or making multiple trips to the litter box
- Profuse vomiting
- Sitting over the water bowl and not moving (cats are desert creatures and you should rarely see them hanging at the water bowl – if you do, something is wrong!)
- Seizing or twitching
- Any kind of trauma
- Any kind of toxicity
- Any string hanging out of any orifice (don’t pull, please!)
Our Emergency Veterinary Clinic in Brampton is fully equipped with modern veterinary medical technology for:
- assessment and treatment of trauma cases
- intensive care treatment
- on-site blood and urine testing
- radiology (x-ray) services
- anesthesia and emergency surgery
- continued care for chronic and life-threatening illnesses
Emergency Veterinary Clinic hours of operation are:
- Weeknights from 7pm-8am the following morning
- Weekends 24 hour service from Friday 7pm to 8am Monday morning